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uCareSystem – All-In-One System Update And Maintenance Tool For Ubuntu/LinuxMint
uCareSystem Core is a thin utility that automates the basic system maintenance activity, in other hand it will reduce system administrator task in many ways and save some good amount of time. It doesn’t have any GUI and offers purely command line interface to perform the activity.
There are several utilities available in Ubuntu to perform system maintenance activity. Each tool has their own unique features and designed accordingly. You can automate this task by adding a cron-job.
uCareSystem Core will automatically refresh distribution repository, Updates the list of available packages, uninstall packages (obsolete, orphaned & old Linux Kernels) & Clears the retrieved packages to save some disk space on system.
Suggested Read : Stacer – Linux System Optimizer and Monitoring Tool
Suggested Read : BleachBit – A Quick And Best Way to Clean Up Your System In Linux
Suggested Read : Free Up Some Space in Ubuntu/LinuxMint With Ubuntu Cleaner (Fork of Janitor Module)
uCareSystem Core Features
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Update package lists (It will refresh package index)
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Downloads and install updates
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Update packages and system libraries to latest available version
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Remove unneeded, obsolete & orphaned packages
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Remove old kernels (It keeps the current and previous one for safety purpose)
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Remove unused config files
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Clean downloaded temporary packages
Install uCareSystem Core In Ubuntu/LinuxMint
We can easily install uCareSystem Core in Ubuntu/LinuxMint through PPA since developer offering the own PPA.
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:utappia/stable
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install ucaresystem-core
We have successfully installed uCareSystem Core package and going to check current disk space utilization with help of df -hcommand before executing uCareSystem Core command to know whether it will save some disk space or not?
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 979M 0 979M 0% /dev
tmpfs 200M 6.4M 194M 4% /run
/dev/sda1 38G 19G 17G 54% /
tmpfs 999M 216K 999M 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 999M 0 999M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 200M 112K 200M 1% /run/user/1000
Just run an ucaresystem-core command in terminal and sitback reset it will take care automatically and no human interaction requires till the end.
$ sudo ucaresystem-core
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uCareSystem Core v3.0
~ '' ~
Welcome to all-in-one System Update and maintenance
assistant app.
This simple script will automatically
refresh your packagelist, download and
install updates (if there are any), remove any old
kernels, obsolete packages and configuration files
to free up disk space, without any need of user
interference.
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uCareSystem Core will start in 5 seconds...
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Started
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Ign:1 https://wire-app.wire.com/linux/debian stable InRelease
Hit:2 https://wire-app.wire.com/linux/debian stable Release
Hit:4 https://deb.nodesource.com/node_6.x yakkety InRelease
Hit:5 https://repo.skype.com/deb stable InRelease
Hit:6 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu yakkety InRelease
Hit:7 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu yakkety InRelease
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Removing linux-image-extra-4.8.0-34-generic (4.8.0-34.36) ...
Purging configuration files for linux-image-extra-4.8.0-34-generic (4.8.0-34.36) ...
Removing linux-image-extra-4.8.0-32-generic (4.8.0-32.34) ...
Purging configuration files for linux-image-extra-4.8.0-32-generic (4.8.0-32.34) ...
#####################################
Finished removing unused config files
#####################################
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Del tilix 1.5.6-1~webupd8~yakkety1 [449 kB]
Del tilix-common 1.5.6-1~webupd8~yakkety1 [174 kB]
Del libfreetype6 2.6.3-3ubuntu1.2 [336 kB]
Del terminix 1.5.6-1~webupd8~yakkety1 [13.7 kB]
######################################
Cleaned downloaded temporary packages
######################################
#########################
Done
#########################
I could see that, it does the job as expected. Also found it saved almost 2GB in / partition.
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 979M 0 979M 0% /dev
tmpfs 200M 6.4M 194M 4% /run
/dev/sda1 38G 18G 19G 49% /
tmpfs 999M 216K 999M 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 999M 0 999M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 200M 112K 200M 1% /run/user/1000
via: http://www.2daygeek.com/ucaresystem-system-update-and-maintenance-tool-for-ubuntu-linuxmint/